24.10.2014 Views

MOSAIC - The training kit for Euro-Mediterranean youth work

MOSAIC - The training kit for Euro-Mediterranean youth work

MOSAIC - The training kit for Euro-Mediterranean youth work

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

382<br />

Ideas <strong>for</strong> action<br />

Encourage the group to write to the media outlets that, they felt, showed the greatest<br />

bias in reporting, outlining their analysis and explaining their perception of bias.<br />

Most major news outlets have complaints procedures and contact details <strong>for</strong> the public<br />

to give feedback on their <strong>work</strong>. Encourage the group to use them!<br />

Suggestions <strong>for</strong> follow-up<br />

If you want to pursue the “terrorism” theme, you could look at one of the new activities<br />

in Compass online; <strong>for</strong> example, “What is terrorism?” explores further the idea that acts<br />

may be as horrific as each other in their consequences, but may be given a different<br />

evaluation according to which groups have carried them out.<br />

<strong>The</strong> media theme can be further developed with the activity “Front page”, or using<br />

some of the picture games in Compass.<br />

Further in<strong>for</strong>mation<br />

Possible news items could include:<br />

– the events of September 11<br />

– the run-up to the war in Iraq (you could take news stories from a particular day)<br />

– the execution of Saddam Hussein<br />

– the war in Lebanon in July 2006<br />

For media sources, use:<br />

– one local media source<br />

– the Aljazeerah website at http://english.aljazeera.net<br />

– the BBC website at http://news.bbc.com or <strong>Euro</strong>-News at www.euronews.net<br />

– Le Monde Diplomatique at http://mondediplo.com/<br />

– the CNN website at www.cnn.com/<br />

All these channels are available in various different languages. Use any accompanying<br />

photographs to the articles.<br />

Handouts<br />

Reporting on reporting<br />

<br />

Reporting on reporting<br />

How far do we accept without question what we see or read in the news? How much of<br />

what we read is really fact, and how much is the opinion of the journalists or editors of news<br />

outlets? Read the article with the accompanying picture (if there is one). Look out <strong>for</strong>:<br />

facts that can be deduced from the report (anything it is hard to dispute!)<br />

opinions presented in the report as opinions (i.e. words or phrases that make it clear<br />

that the author is only expressing his/her opinion)<br />

words, images or phrases which have been used to give the report a particular slant<br />

or interpretation and which “hide” as facts (like “terrorist”/ “freedom fighter”)<br />

<strong>The</strong>n put together a report on this report, in which you should include:<br />

essential in<strong>for</strong>mation about what has happened: what is the report meant to be about?<br />

the editorial position: what attitude (if any) does the news outlet adopt towards this event?<br />

<strong>MOSAIC</strong> - <strong>The</strong> <strong>training</strong> <strong>kit</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Euro</strong>-<strong>Mediterranean</strong> <strong>youth</strong> <strong>work</strong>

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!